Announced earlier this morning, the2021 Oscar nominationsare out; as Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas lifted the curtain off this year’s best works in different aspects of filmmaking. David Fincher’s biographical drama,Mankis in for the most appreciation. The film nabbed not one or two, but ten nominations in different categories, making it the most-nominated film of Oscars 2021. Written by the late Jack Fincher,Mankfollows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) and his efforts to develop the screenplay for Orson Welles' 1941 filmCitizen Kane.
Besides Gary Oldman, the film featured an ensemble including Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Burke, Jamie McShane, and Charles Dance. Here are the categories in whichMankwill compete for this year’s Academy Awards.
AsMankgarnered the most nominations, no other film nears the Netflix movie’s Oscar-winning probability. However, no nominationMankhas received seems unfair. Revisiting the writing process of the “world’s best film ever made”,Mankexcelled in each aspect of film-making. Besides exuberant performances, the film ensured to sustain the integrity of the industry life back in the 1940s, with Fincher even filming the entire movie in Black-and-White to pay homage to the films of that time. Fincher has ensured to perfect the costumes, the editing, the sets, and everything else about it, which resulted in a flawless construction of his father’s screenplay. The only snub for the film was the Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Jack Fincher. Notably, Jack wrote the screenplay a long time ago, before his passing in 2003. Jack Fincher was nominated in the categoryat the Golden Globe Awards ceremonybut did not win.
As forMank’s competition at theOscars, the film has got a hefty one to face during the ceremony. In the Best Picture category alone,Mankwill compete against critical successes, like,Judas and the Black Messiah,Nomadland,Sound of Metal,The Trial of Chicago 7,Minari,Promising Young Woman, andThe Father. Interestingly, all these films in the Best Picture category followMank, in being the second-highest nominated films altogether with six nominations each (except Promising Young Woman, which nabbed 5 nominations).
The 93rdAcademy Awardswill go live on August 05, 2025, from two locations; one being the Dolby Theatre and the other being Union Station. However, unlike the last year’s Emmys and this year’s Golden Globe Awards, the Oscars ceremony will be an in-person event, with the nominees and attendees divided in the two set locations in Los Angeles.
